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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

In case you've missed all the pink ribbons, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. A few bakeries took this as an opportunity to roll out their "best" (note my restraint in the pun department) designs in celebration of breast cancer survivors everywhere:

Ah, such a labor of love. Nothing says "celebration" and "strength" quite like a pepto-pink cake with "Survivor" misspelled across the top. At first I thought that paper cut-out was actually on the cake, too, but my eagle-eyed hubby assures me it's on the plastic lid - thus blocking our view of the white "ribbon". Which is the wrong color. But hey, one ribbon out of two ain't bad.

Fortunately most cancer survivors I know have an amazing sense of humor, so we can hope this cake went to a Cake Wrecks reader who could appreciate its wrecktastic nature.

And while we're on the subject, John would like to register his vote for this to be put on a cake:

I totally have that t-shirt!! I love wearing it!! I find it very humorous when people stare. At least it's a good excuse to stare at someone's chesticles - "Honey, I swear, I wasn't staring at her monster boobs, I was reading her t-shirt and I totally support saving the tatas".

I can't stomach the puke-pink. Pastel pink would've been oh-so-much nicer. Looks like someone didn't put enough white in the red frosting for that.It's too early in the morning for me to have noticed the misspelling without it being pointed out to me.~Amy B

Oh look....someone discovered the "Salmon Pink" crayola crayon and decided to create an icing tribute. I actually had to send this cake to my mom and threaten her with it...I think she found the spelling more amusing than the color though. On a side note, my daughter's old dance coach not only had a "Save the ta-ta's" magnet, but she also had a "Hurray for Boobies!" one with a pink ribbon. I wasn't sure if I admired her sense of humor or was slightly perplexed by it.

My BIL has the best Breast Cancer Awareness T-shirt ever. It's from our small family beach, and there is a picture of a flounder with the caption "I Help Save Breast." One out of two ain't bad, I suppose . . . .

Brilliant stuff !! Worthy of a top ten cake wreck perhaps? I think so.I have to second John's vote for "Save the Ta Ta's". I think Survivors would get a kick out of it and the survivors I know have the sickest sense of humor out of anyone I know !!

I'm puzzled by the fact that on Amanda's blog (the link where the cake was originally posted) someone tries to defend the misspelling by saying the final result is more aesthetically pleasing. Can't we have good spelling AND pleasing aesthetics? Is that too much to ask? (Well, maybe of someone who thinks Pepto-Bismal makes a great cake icing...)

Ah, darn... I almost snapped a cell phone pic of a wrecktastic cupcake cake shaped into a lumpy, pink-ribbon approximation for you at the local grocery which would have gone so beautifully with your 'surivor' cake! But I was afraid of the Atilla the Hun of a baker glaring at me with a look in her eye that told me she knew exactly what was in my mind...

My favorite product from Save the Tatas, which I happened upon while covering a beauty product fair, is Boob Lube, a soap for your breast exam each month. Okay, it's probs just regular soap. But I like the idea. And the name.

I actually have a "feel your boobies" magnet in my office as the young lady who started the organization is from where I live. I also have a t-shirt but I am always too chicken to wear it out in public!

Why oh why can't people figure out that Breast Cancer Pink is a specific color of pink???

I love the slogans.....but I had the BEST shirts when I walked the 3 Day - they were Co-Ed Naked themed - Co-Ed Naked Breast Exam (complete with hand prints on my boobs), Co-Ed Naked Mammogram (squished boobie picture and all) and Co-Ed Naked 3 Day ("It's long, it's hard, and it made me cry!")

I, too, know plenty of "surivors" who would laugh themselves silly with a pepto-colored cake that was mis-spelled! LMAO!

Wow. I am over fifty years old, and I have never heard them referred to as ta tas. What area of the country did that get started in??? And it took me a while to get "save second base", too. Oh, my. I have lived a sheltered life.

I am afraid to ask what the "feel your boobies" campaign means. Oh, the monthly exam?? Oh, I am SO slow.

awesome. i have to say, i don't hate the cake. Don't get me wrong, i hate the misspelling, but I am all for pink, and the cause. And it's not too ugly, overlooking the missing V. That said, impressive pun restraint, Jen, and I'd eat a save the ta-tas cake any day.

Maybe the cake is the result of a really inside joke, like it's for a breast cancer survivor that had to have a mastectomy, so they decided that the Vs would represent boobs, and SURIVOR is the result... (Unless it was a double mastectomy, and then it would have to be SURIOR.)

Probably a really long and dim shot, but that's what I thought of when I looked at it. More likely, the cake decorator just can't spell.

LOL - OMG, you are an eternal source of great laughs! I just love your blog for that! The cakes of course have their share in it, but your comments make me roll on the floor laughing! Thank you - and "Save the ta tas"! :)

The "Save the Ta-Ta's" deal is obviously a breast cancer awareness group...at my local Relay for Life, one of my Mom's friend (who is a breast cancer survivor) was selling all sorts of things there. I have a tank top, sweatshirt, button and sticker set as well.

And that cake...how could you even consider yourself a person who is "for the cause" when you can't even spell Survivor, let alone but the correct ribbon on the cake?

*sigh* I hope for the day when all cake wrecks aren't mearly caused by stupidity...oh wait, those are the best one! =D

Long before I discovered this blog, I once asked that a pink ribbon be put on a cake for my mother, in honor of her one year survival day. The result was a misshapen, pink blob that had me tearfully begging my husband to confront the baker because I wouldn't have been able to do so without causing a scene.

Cause cakes done badly really upset me. Aren't those people who have been so much worth at least a *little* effort?

I have a save the ta-ta's t-shirt that has the same logo on the, ummm, chest. hee hee My friend got one at the same time that says save second base. We both get lots of looks until people realize that it means.

I gotta' say, that "save the ta tas" is amazingly offensive. Reducing a womyn to her breast; yeah we haven't heard that in a while, unless of course you watch television, read mainstream books, and perhaps associate with an humin being ever.

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